From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
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Half His Age A Novel
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
Popular Reviews(11)
Reviewed by tylerhoward222@gmail.comHmmm I am conflicted. I loved the emotional warfare that this book put me into. Dealings with loneliness, depression, anxiety, and lust. Honestly I think this book peels back the veil of who we are when we want something so bad that we'd self sabotage ourselves to get it. Some say this book is vulgar, and I'd agree. It got its point across by being vulgar so for that I'd say good job lol
Reviewed by EllenThank god i dont have to have Waldos mindset
Reviewed by Spelly Bellasuch an important topic! I was always hoping the mom and the teacher would be bettter!! so I did like the ending! she broke off the relationship so happy for her! I mean I loved how he had to dump his wife also so he did not get to keep one of them! I had such high hopes about the mom getting better, being better, doing what she should have many maany years ago! Overall excluding my disgust to that nasty teacher
Reviewed by CoraHuiii intense insgesamt. Liebe den Schreibstil von Jennette McCurdy. Es ist alles trocken und ein bisschen bitter, viel beschreibend und die ungefilterten Gedanken der Protagonistin nehmen viel Raum ein, wodurch alles sehr nahbar ist und ihre Handlungen nachvollziehbar werden. Hab mich am Anfang sehr unwohl gefühlt beim lesen v.a. In den Sex Szenen zwischen Waldo und ihrem Lehrer. Das wurde im Verlauf des Buches immer weniger, weil Waldos Idealisierung des Lehrers auch langsam aber sicher abgenommen hat. Ganz weg war das Unwohlsein aber auch am Schluss nicht. Man merkt über das gesamte Buch, dass es aus der Perspektive einer 17 jährigen in einer missbräuchlichen Beziehung ist und das macht das lesen unbequem. Die Machtverhältnisse sowohl aufgrund des Alters, aber auch durch die unterschiedlichen sozialen und finanziellen Situationen von Waldo und ihrem Lehrer sind auch sehr gut dargestellt. Insgesamt eines der wenigen Bücher über age gap/Lehrer x Schülerin „Beziehungen“, die das Ganze nicht romantisiert. Glaube das kommt zu einem Teil auch davon, dass Waldo nicht das „perfektes Opfer“ ist. Sie handelt einige Male auch falsch und wirkt durch ihre kümmernde Rolle gegenüber ihrer Mutter phasenweise deutlich erwachsener und mehr auf einer Augenhöhe mit ihrem Lehrer als sie das als 17 jährige ist. Man vergisst den Altersunterschied dadurch immer mal wieder für einen Moment, er wird einem aber dann durch Verhaltensweisen oder Gedanken von Waldo wieder ins Gedächtnis geholt.
Reviewed by charlotteIch war erst sehr skeptisch, weil ich viele Rezensionen gelesen habe, die eher gegen das Buch gesprochen haben. Mir hat es dann doch sehr gut gefallen. Die Dynamik der beiden war oft unerträglich, aber ich bin happy darüber, in welche Richtung sich alles dann doch entwickeln konnte.